A very nice movie. Movies are basically a medium of entertainment. Everything apart from entertainment is secondary. However the way entertainment is blended with any message or a thought makes the movie good or average. Manubhai is the centre of this movie. He represents an ideal way of living life. He epitomizes life in itself. He is naughty, he is sleazy, he is friendly, he is respectful, he is understanding, he is caring, he is rude, he is funny. All the other characters, who represent majority of the people around us, including oneself, revolve around him in just the same way as we try to follow our own life. We try to please it sometimes, we curse it sometimes. We hate it one time and then we just adore it the next time. Never do we realize what it really wants or how do we react to it. The Movie through the character of Manubhai exactly tries to give us some clues about handling that dilemma in our own life. 'Zindagi se ehsaan mat le, Zindagi pe ehsaan kar'. This basic thought is so simply put yet in such a beautiful and most importantly in such an entertaining way. The story identifies a few characters as the most important, as it should be, but the director makes sure every element of the movie is necessary. Hence, everyone shines through. Personally, of many good movies in the last 2-3 decades, I found this movie to be the closest to Hrishikesh Mukherjee style of movie making. Why the movie did not collect much money on the box office is something I don't understand, but then the movies that make money are the most stupidest kind ones. So in that sense it is right, but the producer should get back his money with some profit otherwise we wont be able to see these type of classics. The type of reality shows, happening on the idiot box, that are getting viewer ship explains the deteriorating choice of the general public and this movie is just a 'drop in the ocean' in cleansing the overall muddy entertainment spread everywhere. I did miss the movie when it got released and neither did I notice it anytime in any DVD store. I got to know about it and also watched the movie on a Free but legally available online streaming service. If anyone wants to watch after reading the review, please make sure you do the same. That is all we as responsible audience can do to support such creative activities.
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